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No. 281,703. Patented July 24, 1883.

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UNITED STAT S P TENT OFFICE.

DANIEL E. LADD, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE TO EEANK B. HOOPER, OF sAME rLAoE.

NECKTl E -HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,703, dated July 24, 1883.

Application filed January 11, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it mayv concern: I

Be it known that I, DANIEL E. LADD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a certain improvement in necktie-holders, and will first be described and then claimed.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a view of the holder. Fig. 2 is a view showing the holder attached to the necktie. Fig. 3 shows a section of a collar, necktie, and the holder applied thereto. Fig. 4 is a view'of part of a collar and necktie with the holder in position. I V

The holder is made of spring-Wire.

The letter a designates two upright parallel springs, which are joined together at the lower end bya curved hook, I). This hook projects away from both springs and curves upward.

At the upper ends of the springs the wire is doubled back, as at c, and extends down along-' side of each spring about one-third or one-half its length, at which place each end of the wire projects laterally or sidewise at a right angle with respect to the springs. Each end d of the spring is pointed like a pin, and the two points project in opposite directions. By-this construction each of the two parallel springs a carry a right-angled projecting point, 01, and by compressing the upper ends of the two springs together, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 2, then pressing the fabric of the necktie E against them, and finally allowing the two springsto spread, the points (1 are thereby pressed into the fabric. The necktie is then placed about the collar F andtied, and the The construction of the holder enables it to be secured to the necktie, and the latter may be put on about the collar and removed again and again, and a soiled collar changed for a clean one Without readjustment of the holder and without liability of its becoming detached.

This holder may also be employed with the butterfly fastenerin front, instead of the rubber cord. The points (I may be engaged with the butterfly with the hook uppermost, and the hook may then rest on or over the neckband of the collar.

I do not claim, broadly, a wire holder to confine the necktie down when the tie is about the collar, as I. am aware such devices have been made before.

Having described my invention, 1' claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States- A necktie-holder made of wire, consisting of In testimony whereof I affiX my signature, in

presence of two witnesses, this 8th day of De ceinber, 1882. I

DANIEL E. LADD WVitnesscs:

JOHN E. MORRIS, J No. T. MADDOX. 

